Official Creality 3D Printer Ender 3 Upgraded Silent Board Motherboard V4.2.7 with TMC2225 Driver Marlin 2.0.1 for Ender 3/ Ender 3 V2/ Ender 3 Pro/Ender 3 Max/Ender 3 Neo/3 V2 Neo/3 Max Neo – For Sale – Price

10 reviews for Official Creality 3D Printer Ender 3 Upgraded Silent Board Motherboard V4.2.7 with TMC2225 Driver Marlin 2.0.1 for Ender 3/ Ender 3 V2/ Ender 3 Pro/Ender 3 Max/Ender 3 Neo/3 V2 Neo/3 Max Neo – For Sale – Price

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   Michael Wilson – 25 February 2025

   Works great
   I had accidentally damaged the micro USB port on the original board for my Ender 3 V2. Rather than trying to replace the port, I figured I’d get this as an upgrade. It has worked well for me so far. The noise from the motors are almost non existent, which is fantastic. The only noise from the printer are the fans. Creality’s installation tutorial was clear enough for me and there are also plenty of other guides out there too. Just be warned that it does take some time to swap out. I can confirm it works with the mriscoc firmware as well if you are inclined to use that.

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   Timothy McNabb – 25 February 2025

   Solves problems, reduces noise, allows auto-leveling with proper equipment
   I had the 4.2.2 board shoot craps, so I ordered this as a replacement/upgrade along with the CR-Touch. It is an intermediate-level effort. On my unit, plugs had some hot glue on them to hold them in place. I used a syringe with a bit of rubbing alcohol to break the hot-glue bod with the plastic and it picked right off.Switch one plug and one wire at a time. Be patient, and watch a couple YouTube videos.

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   Scrimshaw – 25 February 2025

   Super silent, very glad I upgraded, but Creality firmware lags by a few years for Ender 3 Pro
   I got this board installed easily enough on my (1st generation) Ender 3 Pro by following some online video tutorials. The biggest challenge was the old board had all of the connectors hot-glued, so I had to peel off a lot of glue to release the connectors from the old board. However, once that was done, this was fairly straightforward to install.I was also installing a BL touch at the same time, and I wasn’t sure if the firmware on the board would support it out of the box, so I downloaded the appropriate code from the Creality website. The most current code I could find on their website for this V4.2.7 board (that supported BL touch) was Marlin V2.0.6 (under the basic Ender 3 section, not the Ender 3 Pro section).The only odd thing I’ve noticed is that when it’s auto-leveling with the BL Touch, this board intermittently turns off the hot end, so it cools while leveling, and then you get a thermal error about 10 seconds into the print because the nozzle is too cold. I have searched online for an answer to this, and haven’t found the “right” answer (to keep the hot end turned on during leveling), but did find a work around by adding an M109 command to my startup Gcode, to force the hot end to heat up again. I wish Creality kept their code more current, so hopefully this helps you if you encounter this problem with this board.Overall, I love this board. It’s super silent, and the only noise is the fan. Rarely you can hear a bit of stepper noise (just barely) for a moment when it’s printing an interesting curve, but that’s it. Even with Creality’s outdated firmware, I’m giving this 5 stars.

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   London – 25 February 2025

   Makes my Ender 3 pro silent!
   It makes my ender 3 pro basically silent, the only thing you’re hear are the fans! Well worth it!

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   C Dow – 25 February 2025

   This is not the simplest of upgrades, but BOY is it WORTH it. So quiet!
   The bottom line. This board DEFINITELY quiets down your Ender printer, if you have one of the original 8-bit, non-silent mainboards. Details of my experience follow.First off, you need to do the research on your printer. Follow instructions to take off the cover and get a look at the mainboard. Mine was V1.1.4 which means it’s an older 8-bit board, using the cheap, non-silent stepper motor drivers. If you want to replace the mainboard, you’re going to need to take this cover off, so you might as well do it and get a look under the hood. (I uploaded a picture of my old board.) The models listed show what printers this board works on, but newer versions of some of these printers already come with a newer, 32-bit board, so you’ll want to make sure you need to spend the $$ first.Secondly, the physical installation of the board is pretty easy. Your printer should have come with all the little hex keys you need, and you really want to make SURE that you know where everything plugs in. On my ender 3 pro, the cables for the X, Y, and Z stop switch, as well as the cables for the X, Y, Z, and E motor ports are all labeled, and can only go one place. It’s the thermistors (temp sensors) for the heated bed and the extruder nozzle that look exactly the same. Do yourself a favor and label them left and right or something. If you don’t you might get them reversed, which will mean you’ll need to open up your printer and switch them again later. I reversed them. Didn’t blow anything up, but when the bed is heating, and the nozzle is registering the temp increase, I knew I’d screwed up.Nextly, this board came with an OLD firmware. SO ANNOYING, because everyone said it SHOULD come with a new one. It didn’t. When I downloaded the firmware for the 4.2.7 board from Creality’s website, ***it turned all my menus to CHINESE!*** So get this…I literally had to download the source code and build the latest bugfix release of Marlin’s firmware myself using Visual Studio Code, and Marlin’s Auto Build Marlin plugin with the help of some YouTube videos. In addition, Octoprint didn’t like that the HOST_ACTION_COMMANDS option wasn’t enabled, so then I had to make that change in the source code and recompile. Then I flashed the firmware to my printer, which is thankfully easy to do with the new board’s bootloader. Just drop the .BIN file on the SD card, and boot up the printer. (A note, if you get an EEPROM initialization warning: Take the SD card out when you get the EEPROM warning, power cycle the printer, select RESET, and you’ll be in business after a single annoying beep. You won’t get it again.)If this all sounds like a hassle, it really is. I was a programmer for a couple years, and work in IT, so this wasn’t the end of the world for me. I could figure it out. However, if you’re a hobbyist with no coding experience, and don’t want to bother with all of this, then you might want to consider paying a 3d printer nerd near you to help you figure this out. Because while I knocked off a star for this hassle…….IT REALLY WAS WORTH IT! My printer is in my bedroom. My wife has absolutely nixed overnight prints because with the stock board, the printer was just so. darn. LOUD. I can’t blame her. But after this board install, my printer’s loudest feature is the fans, which is really just white noise. The motors are SO DARN QUIET. I can barely hear them sitting a foot away. It sounds hard to believe, I know. I uploaded a video and I hope you can hear the difference, but regardless trust me, the difference is night and day. When looking at this upgrade, I wondered if I was flushing my money down the toilet, but aside from the hassle that the upgrade and firmware compiling was, I am SO happy I did this.Your mileage may vary when it comes to the firmware. Maybe by the time you get to reading this review, Creality will make it more obvious which printer firmware you need, but for the Ender 3 Pro, most of the firmwares were for options with auto-leveling sensors, or filament runout sensors, or whatever. When I flashed the only one that looked promising with the 4.2.7 board revision on it, it turned everything to Chinese. I spent hours on this, and I can imagine someone with no coding experience might spend even longer. You just need to be aware of the possibility of having to do some work.But it really is worth it. So quiet now!

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   Miguelonmex – 25 February 2025

   Éso si, tuve que flashear el firmware para que quedara como a mi me gusta.Y si es silencioso a comparación de la tarjeta original de mi Ender 3 pro.

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   BrokenCinder3 – 25 February 2025

   I just got finished installing it and have only run a couple very short prints but I’ve been doing a bunch of upgrades to my Ender 3 and this is for sure one of if not the best one I’ve done so far. It makes the motors whisper quiet and I needed a new board anyway because when I was doing some other work I accidentally fried something in the other one so that the centrifugal fans would never kick in. Oops right. Also I don’t know if it’s just upgraded firmware or something you can only get on a different board but it has a different version of the firmware on it and it has a different layout with more features which is super nice. And also I’m hoping this one won’t have some of the glitches the original board had as I haven’t had any come up yet where it would on the original. One thing to keep in mind is they don’t send very good instructions for swapping over but if you’re at this point of messing with your printer I’m sure you have a good enough understanding of it to do everything. And if you’re nervous just take pictures and mark where things go. It is just a plug and play swap. Overall great upgrade and highly recommend.

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   Conor Hildebrandt – 25 February 2025

   If you have an Ender 3 and have to listen to it get this upgrade immediately. The difference is insane and it’s so nice to have such a quiet machine. I’d never buy another Ender 3 again but if I did I would get another one of these boards

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   Alejandro solano lara – 25 February 2025

   Esta bien 1200 es un abuso …Pero está muy buena en general

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    luis fernando – 25 February 2025

    Excelente, funciona perfectamente y no hace ruido, aunque me lleve un pequeño susto cuando la instalé, el pequeño ventilador no giraba cuando hice la prueba, era porque tenías que ponerle manualmente las revoluciones si lo querías probar, todo lo demás bien.